Artists grooving
to a vinyl beat
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Sometimes no matter how hard
technology tries to reinvent the wheel,
the real thing eventually prevails.
The real thing is vinyl.
When the compact disc entered
the music market in the mid-’80s,
people boxed up their old vinyl records
and let them sit on the shelf and
collect dust. Vinyl records were al
most obsolete.
Now, the old records are coming
back.
Stuart Kolnick, owner of Recycled
Sounds, said he noticed an increase
in vinyl record sales in the last couple
of years.
“Five or six years ago, people got
rid of a lot of records,” he said. “Then
they realized that there’s a lot of
things they can get with records that
they can’t with CDs.”
Kolnick said both new and old
releases were available on vinyl. Clas
sic artists such as Frank Zappa, the
Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd
— as well as new alternative artists
— are popular on vinyl.
Janet Froschheiser, store manager
for Twisters Records and Tapes, said
Twisters was stocking several vinyl
records by ’90s artists, including Pearl
Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and Sugar. 1
Pearl Jam even released its new
album “Vs.” on vinyl one week before 1
it came out on compact disc or cas- I
sette.
“I’m assuming the band had the 1
warm fuzzies for vinyl like a lot of
people my age do,” Froschheiser said.
Froschheiser, 27, said she was a
“vinyl lover” herself.
“You got about 10 years old and
begged your mother to join Columbia
House, and you got 15 LPs for a
penny,” she said. “Or you could go to
Woolworth’s and get them really
cheap. Every Saturday, Mom would
let us buy a new one.”
Froschheiser, who went to Norris
High School in Firth, said that when
her classmates took a field trip into
town, they’d sneak off and go to Dirt
Cheap to buy records.
“Maybe I’m fond of vinyl because
I have good memories of that time,”
she said. “I’m personally glad to see
it come back.”
Vinyl records look more substan
tial than compact discs, she said,
because the art work is bigger and
more elaborate.
The sound quality of a record is the
same, if not better, than a CD, if the
record is played on a good turntable,
she said.
“The Beatlesall recorded on equip
ment designed for LP. When they put
it on a CD, a lot of people said it didn’t
sound as good,” Froschheiser said.
She said classical or jazz music on
yinyl may sound better than compact
fisc.
The digital recording techniques
jsed for compact discs have to sample
>arts of the sound wave and compress
he sound, she said. On vinyl records,
he entire sound wave flows through.
Compact discs also can pick up
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Besides compact discs, Stuart Koinick, owner of Recycled Sounds, carries several hundred
new and used vinyl albums in his store.
imperfections — “popping and hiss
ing” — that vinyl records may not,
she said.
Froschheisersaid many people who
bought alternative records didn’t even
care about sound. They don’t even
have turntables.
“Maybe it’s more alternative,” she
said, laughing. “I know a kid in town,
who doesn’t have a turntable, who
doesn’t even open his records, be
cause he says they’ll be really valu
able some day.”
She said records would be more
collectable than compact discs ever
would be. Many punk-rock artists
never released their music on com
pact disc, so vinyl is the place to find
them.
Another catalyst in bringing vinyl
back to mainstream music is the num
ber of new, local artists releasing
their songs on vinyl records.
“It’s more affordable for small
groups to put out a single to see how
it does instead of investing thousands
to put out a CD.”
Pat Nocker, guitarist for the Lin
coln band Opium Taylor, said his
group released its songs on a 7-inch
record.
“It’s a good way to put out your
product. It’s a good promotional de
vice,” he said. “It’s just cool.”
Records are easy to package and
send out to radio stations and promot
ers, he said.
Cost was another factor in Opium
Taylor’s decision. Releasing their
songs on compact disc or cassette
would have cost more than the $ 1,200
the band spent on their vinyl records.
Nocker said vinyl records also had
a “warmer” sound.
“I don’t think they’re ever going to
go out of style.”
Lesbian love story a comedic glimpse at relationships
By Jim Cihlar
Staff Reporter
Two words best describe the movie
“Go Fish”: hilarious. Even the press
packet is funny.
“Girl meets girl. Girl thinks about
girl. Girl dates girl — but is she the
ONE?” it says.
Anyway, in the film’s opening
scene, set in a coffee house filled with
women customers, one character says
to another, “What is this, dyke-o
rama? Free refills for everyone who
has kissed a woman?”
The film explores the relationships
among lesbians living in Chicago in
1994. It highlights the romance be
tween Max, who has named herself
after the main character in Maurice
Sendak's “Where the Wild Things
Are,” and Ely (“What kind of hippie
is she?” Max asks a friend who fixes
them up. “Plain, Crunchy, or Extra
Crunchy?’’).
This is a movie more about com
munity than romance. Ely, played by
V.S. Brodie, was convincing in her
self-consciousness, and Max, played
by script co-writer Guinevere Tumer,
was convincing in her enthusiasm
and immaturity — but they didn’t
really make a great screen couple.
But they did, however, make for a
lot of funny moments. And there was
a lot of energy and screen chemistry
in the extensive interaction among
the pair’s friends.
The other characters participate in
the narrative scenes by fixing the
couple up, talking to each one about
the relationship, etc. They also have
their own “jury” scenes where they
comment directly on the movie itself.
When the romantic relationship stalls,
Kia, Max’s college professor and
roommate, says, “When are these two
going to get together? What is this,
the lesbian ‘Gandhi’?”
This artistic, funny, intelligent
movie about a lesbian couple also
gives great expression to an essential
truth: all human relationships are
dorky and hopeless, cute and funny.
It shows that the harder we try to
act cool, the dorkier and more self
conscious we act. Two of my favorite
earlier scenes in the movie are:
The couple, both trying to be ca
sual and smooth, say goodbye on Ely’s
doorstep; then Ely slams her head on
the door when pushing it closed.
Later, when they run into each
other in a bookstore, Max is trying to
be cool, trying to impress Ely. She
says goodbye at the counter, then has
to come back and tell the cashier, “I
forgot to pay.”
Two later scenes in the movie are
laugh-out-loud funny: the “jury” dis
cussing an appropriate phrase for fe
male genitalia, and the intercut scenes
of Max and Ely each telling their own
friends the story of the couple's night
together.
The device of intercutting the
scenes is right out of the old Doris
Day/Rock Hudson movies — making
this a 1990s, lesbian version of “Pil
low Talk.”
Shot in black and white, and using
an alternative music soundtrack, this
movie is great to look at and to listen
to. It opens with the visual style of a
music video, set to a spoken-word
poetry soundtrack.
At times the editing and direction
was overly self-conscious, and some
of the performers’ delivery seemed
stilted.
Yet by the closing montage, the
movie is totally stylin’ and profilin’,
combining scenes of sex and romance
with the soundtrack and the closing
credits into a seamless, sophisticated
whole.
“Go Fish” shows at the Sheldon
this weekend.
Quik Facts
Movie: “Go Fish”
Rating: not rated
Stars: Guinevere Turner, V.S.
Brodie
Director: Rose Troche
Grade: B+
Five words: Cool movie about
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